Despite his affected honesty towards Othello, Iago's conniving mind is filled with deceitfulness and craftiness. Iago acknowledges that Cassio has been promoted and taken the position he thinks he deserves. Still, Iago desires to follow his master, Othello and tells Roderigo in the beginning that "I follow him to serve my turn upon him." (p. 5) Iago, a rather self-conceited character, is not very patient about this promotion and demands revenge by pretending to be Othello's ancient. Believing that Othello has put his trust in Iago, he pretends to be obedient. When Othello questions Iago about his honesty and truthfulness, Iago tells him, "My lord, you know I love you." (p. 61) Iago tries to corrupt Othello's mind and instill into Othello conscience that he does love Othello. He starts to show his slyness and artful thoughts to Roderigo. Believing that "Not all masters cannot truly be followed...I am not what I am.", through
the place of Cassio. Whenever Iago is with Othello, he always tries to bring up the topic that would aggravate Othello. After talking to Cassio about Bianca and the handkerchief, Iago asks "And did you see the handkerchief?" even though Othello himself wasn't aware of that this is the same handkerchief that he gave it to Desdemona. (p. 89) Iago tries his best to provoke Othello's anguish and corrupt Othello's mind with his deceitfulness.
Iago improves self-status with his deceitful, cunning thoughts and by acknowledging Othello's innocence and naive. In the inner part of Iago, he hates the Moor and will try to lure him into his conspiracy with Roderigo by Othello's own personalities. Discussing with Roderigo the possibilities that his plan will work, he claims that "[Othello] holds me well; The better shall my purpose work on him." (p. 27) Using his knowledge of Othello and with high self-confidence and acumen, Iago kno
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